Pingyu

alternative P'ing-yü

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

   Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement.

   1958, India Quarterly, volumes 14-15, Indian Council of World Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27

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   Sometimes peasants complained. But is is the thorny logic of renzhi that operates in the countryside. Take the case of Cai Yutang, an elderly peasant in Pingyu County in Henan Province. Local officials wanted to collect money from the peasants to pay for an electricity station, but Cai refused to pay.

   1994, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174

   Retribution was savage after Lu Xianwen denounced this as ‘sabotage of production’ and demanded the punishment of offenders. Cadres in Xiangyang Dian commune in Pingyu county ordered the culprits to be dressed in mourning.

   1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117

   State television, citing officials, confirmed that outbreaks in Enzhou in Hubei Province and Pingyu in Henan Province were indeed the lethal strain, and added a fresh H5N1 outbreak in Nanchang in Jiangxi Province.

   2004 February 8, “China Confirms 3 Outbreaks of Bird Flu”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Asia Pacific